Talk N Text team owner Manny V. Pangilinan is offering a P500,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of the suspect responsible for the shooting of basketball player Ali Peek.

Peek, who plays forward-center for Talk N Text, was shot in the neck Monday night by a still unidentified gunman in front of the RFM Gym in Mandaluyong City. He was rushed to the Medical City in Ortigas and is now in stable condition.

Talk N Text team owner Manny V. Pangilinan is offering a P500,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of the suspect responsible for the shooting of basketball player Ali Peek.

Peek, who plays forward-center for Talk N Text, was shot in the neck Monday night by a still unidentified gunman in front of the RFM Gym in Mandaluyong City. He was rushed to the Medical City in Ortigas and is now in stable condition.

Souquet took home the top $5,000 purse while Orcollo settled for $2,500.

Meanwhile, Great Britain’s Kelly Fisher proved steadier than China’s Yu Han as she hammered out a 9-4 victory to clinch the first finals berth in the 2011 Yalin Women’s World 10-Ball Championship at the Robinson’s Galleria last night.

Fisher, 33, shrugged off a shaky start with a strong finish behind solid shot-making that turned what was once a close 3-3 match to a lopsided win to the delight of the appreciative crowd.

It marked the first time that Fisher, former snooker and English billiards champion, made it to the finals of the world championships of any pool event – 8-Ball, 9-Ball and 10-Ball.

“I made the semifinals of the World 9-Ball event once but I never made it as far as the finals like now, that’s why I’m so excited and happy to be here,” said Fisher, whose last crown came in the 2008 WBPA Pacific Coast Classic.

Fisher will take on the winner of the match pitting Korean Ga Young Kim, last year’s losing finalist, and Taipei’s Tsai Pei Chen, who bundled out Rubilen Amit, 8-7, in the quarters late Saturday.

With the win, Fisher remained the only undefeated player in the third edition of the annual event won by Rubilen Amit in 2009 and Austrian Jasmin Ouschan last year with eight

A total of 252 gold medals will be contested in 23 s ports scheduled in Jakarta of the 26th Southeast Asian Games, which gets going on Friday with a glitzy Opening Ceremony at Palembang province in South Sumatra.

Of the 23 sports, however, the Philippines can only be considered as threats in a very minimal number.

Julian Camacho, secretary general of the Philippine Wushu Federation and the PH contingent’s co-deputy chief of mission, is expecting a gold-medal harvest in the vicinity of 40.

“Forty-plus out of 260 is realistic,” Camacho told the Inquirer. “I think we are shooting for a higher number (of golds) in Palembang.”

The bulk of the 512-strong Philippine delegation will start arriving Monday aboard a Singapore Airline flight.

They will plane in as the Under-23 Azkals take to the pitch again against dangerous Timor Leste at the Lebak Bulus Stadium at 4 p.m. (5 p.m. in Manila).

Vietnam dealt the Azkals a sound beating Thursday afternoon, scoring three goals in the second half to post a 3-1 victory. The defeat put the Philippines in a must-win situation in all of its remaining four games to make the semifinals without a hitch.

Wushu is one of the medal-heavy events here with a total of 20 golds to be staked in a four-day span starting Nov. 18.

Only taekwondo, which has 21 gold medals up for grabs when hostilities begin on Nov. 13 at the Popki Sport Hall in Cibibur, has more championships at stake in Jakarta.

Archery, where the veteran Joan Chan-Tabañag will be seeing action again for the Philippines, is staking 10 golds like bowling and traditional boat race. Pencak Silat will have 18 championships; karate, 17; and judo, where the immortal John Baylon will compete for the nth time, 16, like cycling.

Marites Bitbit, who won cycling’s cross-country race in 2007 in Nakhorn Ratchasima in Thailand without the aid of a teammate, is entered in the 120-kilometer individual road race, the 24-km ITT and the cross country.

Olympian Toni Leviste banners the equestrian team that will shoot for a total of six gold medals starting Nov. 14 at the Arthayosa Stable Club in Depok.

Fencing has 23 athletes entered in 12 events.

One of Camacho’s brightest wushu hopes is Dembert Arcita, the reigning world champion in the 52-kilogram Sanda (contact) event. Arcita won at the world championships less than a month ago in Ankara, Turkey.

Camacho said the organizers’ decision to make the 52-kg division the lightest in the competition affected the country’s gold medal prospect in the sport.

Corteza defeated world number 1 and world 8-ball champion Dennis Orcollo, 11-8, in the finals to bag the top prize of P350,000 plus the SMB Mug trophy.

Orcollo, a former 2-time SMB 9-ball open champion, settled for the runner-up prize of P100,000.

Corteza made the finals after beating former world champion Francisco “Django” Bustamante in the semifinals while Orcollo edged Hall-of-Famer Efren “Bata” Reyes, 9-8 in the other semis match-up.

“I would like to thank sir Jonathan Sy and coach Christopher Palses for always helping me in my local and international tournaments,” said Corteza, whose next tournament is the Japan Open on November 16 in Osaka.

Corteza also defeated former WPA 9-ball and 8-ball champion Ronata Olcano, 9-5, in the round-of-16 and 2006 Sydney World Junior quarter-finalists Renemar David, 9-7, in the round-of-8.

Orcollo’s road to the finals came through Ramil Gallego, whom he defeated 9-1, and Jundel Mazon, whom he also defeated 9-6.

In the race-to-11, alternate break finals, Orcollo jumped to a 3-1 lead before Corteza tied the score at 3-all in the 6th rack.

Orcollo and Corteza exchanged racks to tie the count anew at 4-all, before Corteza won two consecutive racks to take a 6-4 lead. From there, he never looked back, winning five of the next nine racks to run away with the victory.

Orcollo had a chance to tie the match at 5-all in the 10th rack, but failed to sink the 8-ball.